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...skepticism about the program's punch continues to spread. Trying to dispel some of the uncertainty, an unsmiling President declared on national television last week: "I think we will be successful in leveling off the rate of inflation and then bringing it down." But, he added, "I'm beginning to see more and more clearly how difficult it will...
Kahn never lets an opportunity for a quip pass him by. Commenting on the success of his profession, he gibes: "The Pope is telling economist jokes." Asked why he accepted the thankless job of trying to throttle inflation, he replies: "I'm 61 years old. What am I saving it for?" He is brutally frank about his chances for success. Says he: "My prediction [on the growth of the economy] isn't worth the air it rides...
Fortunately, Kahn gets on well with most other economic policymakers, notably Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze. Just about everybody in Washington agrees that Kahn is talented, if a bit of a ham, but that he needs to direct himself better. Kahn concurs: "I'm getting pretty sick of talking about all the things I'm going to do. I want to devote more time to the substance of this...
Protesting university students, 100 strong, hurled eggs, bottles and epithets at the black limousine. British bobbies and U.S. Secret Service men punched, kicked and wrestled with demonstrators as the visitor scurried inside the Oxford Union Society hall. There, before a vastly more appreciative audience, Richard M. Nixon told 800 guests of Oxford University's prestigious debating society that the crowd outside made him feel "very much at home" and that "I have retired from politics, but I have not retired from life." Nixon addressed the society near the end of a week-long trip to France and England...
...Things to Come, based on H.G. Wells' science-fiction thriller. When Lynley, 36, arrived on the set, she learned that her costume was to be "a unisex Mao outfit." Nevertheless, she was cheered by her role as Niki, ruler of a planet named Delta III. "I'm called 'Governor,' not 'Governess' of the planet," says Lynley matter-of-factly. "Apparently there is no delineation of sex in the future...